UNDERSTANDING ROMAN INSCRIPTIONS
(0 User reviews)
92
0-203-08467-5
The Johns Hopkins University Press Baltimore
1991
For reading a book, Please sign in to your account.
loginThe value of inscriptions as historical material is so great that itcan hardly be exaggerated. Apart from modern forgeries, whichare rare and in general easily detected, they are contemporary andauthoritative documents, whose text if legible cannot be corrupt,and whose cumulative value, in the hands of scholars accustomedto handling them in the mass, is astonishing. They are the mostimportant single source for the history and organisation of the
